Director of Engineering

Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. We are the first to admit it - sales tax calculation is not great. But changing fundamental business processes -- that's big time. And that is what we are doing every day, bringing technology to bear on arcane, tedious tasks that every business in the world must deal with.

We are investing in Connectors and Integrations to expand our product portfolio and strengthen our market leadership. And that is where you come in, to develop and expand the core layers that define Avalara's Connectors/Integrations product line.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Director Engineering to join our development team and manage a team of experienced and motivated engineering team that would develop integrations between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and eCommerce platforms for our tax compliance solutions.

This is a fully remote role, that reports into the SVP of Engineering. #LI-Remote

As a Director Engineering, you will apply your vision and drive to create some market leading technology. We have a phenomenal team working in an open, collaborative environment that makes taxes and compliance less taxing to deal with. It will be up to you to convert product vision and requirements into the finished product.

• Develop Integrations Connectors: You will build and manage an suite of integrations for our cloud-native Avalara product suite. You will help improve our market reach by creating a flexible, extensible platform that handles diverse source platforms and exposes critical tax nuances. You'll do this building while maximizing performance, scalability and reliability.
• Automate Business Processes: Address challenges at the intersection of software automation and human-driven tasks, developing solutions to improve business processes.
• Create Innovation: Develop ideas to enhance Avalara's industry leadership.

Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 15+ years of full stack experience in software development, with experience leading teams in building integrations with ERPs and eCommerce platforms.
• Experience with Object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with ERP and eCommerce system architectures, APIs, data models, and authentication mechanisms.
• Good experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, XML, and other data interchange formats.
• Familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth and token-based authentication.
• Experience working in an Agile team with hands on with TDD, BDD
• Experience on AWS Cloud and DevOps (Terraform, Docker, ECS) would be beneficial.